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Some members have long pledged a tax on financial transactions. But as James Tobin, its intellectual godfather, supposedly said, the levy is like the Loch Ness Monster: the idea occasionally pop...

一些成员国长期以来一直承诺对金融交易征税。但正如其知识教父詹姆士·托宾所说，征税就像是尼斯湖水怪：这个想法偶尔会冒出来，然后又消失多年。 国家否决权可能会让向外国人征税看起来更有吸引力。领导人们表示，他们将努力在2023年前实施两项这...

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Nothing in this world is certain, mused Benjamin Franklin, except death and taxes. He never had to contend with the European Union's unanimity rule. Eurocrats have long sought to bolster the EU'...

世界上没有什么是确定的，本杰明·富兰克林沉思地说到，除了死亡和税收。他从不需要应付欧盟的一致同意规则。欧盟的官员一直以来都想用“自由资源”支撑欧盟预算——即应计收入，而不是成员国根据国民收入上交的现金。但几乎每一次将税收集中化的尝试都遭到了...

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Owners and managers are trying to make confinement more bearable with free internet and wage top-ups, says Andreas Hadjipetrou, the managing director of Columbia Shipmanagement. "One captain asked ...

船主和经理们正试图通过免费互联网和加薪来让禁闭变得更容易忍受，哥伦比亚船舶管理有限公司的总经理安德烈亚斯·哈吉佩特鲁说到。“一位船长要求健身设备和卡拉OK，”他说。“船员们组建了一个乐队，并给我们发了一段视频。”更重要的是，他们正在尽一切努...

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"I'm not comfortable in my chair with such a crew," says the captain of a cargo vessel in the South Atlantic en route from Bermuda to Singapore. He is eight months into a four-month contract, and a...

“和这么一群船员在一起，我坐在椅子上都难受，”船长说，他是这艘从百慕大到新加坡的南大西洋货船的船长。他签的是为期四个月的合同，现在已逾期八个月了，几乎船上所有船员的工作时长至少都是合同规定时间的两倍。 他希望新加坡能够接受事实，即几个...

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Science & technology. Sports equipment. Getting a leg up. New running shoes could help smash a string of Olympic records. Platform shoes are back in fashion, at least in athletics. Many of the l...

科技板块 体育用品 抢占上风 新型跑鞋有望打破一系列奥运纪录 厚底鞋又开始流行了，至少在田径场上是这样。在7月23日开幕的东京奥运会上，许多长跑运动员都将穿着一双特别炸眼的厚底运动鞋抵达起跑线。这种新款鞋将不仅仅是一种时尚宣言，...

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There are competing theories for the inverse relationship; many date from the late 1970s and early 1980s. A paper written by Franco Modigliani and Richard Cohn in 1979 put it down to "money illusio...

相反关系中存在各种竞争理论；其中很多要追溯到20世纪70年代末至20世纪80年代。1979年，弗朗哥·莫迪利亚尼和理查德·科恩的一篇论文将其归因于“货币幻觉”：通货膨胀上升导致股价下降，因为投资者根据较高名义债券收益率贴现未来收益。 ...

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In place where it has been long absent, it is hard to remember what a curse inflation is. In other places, it is hard to forget it. Take Zimbabwe. In 2008 it suffered an inflation rate in the squil...

在长期没有通货膨胀的地方，很难记得通货膨胀诅咒是什么。在其他地方，则很难忘记。例如，津巴布韦。在2008年，津巴布韦遭遇巨额通货膨胀。每隔几周价格就翻一番，然后是每隔几天。 钞票就像是五彩纸屑。有些人转而把股票作为一种价值储存手段。周...

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Warner has arranged a digital-only release for "Scoob!", which was due in theatres on May 15th. Paramount has sold "The Lovebirds" to Netflix. Even Disney, which does better at the box office than ...

华纳公司已经安排发行数字版《史酷比狗》，该片本应于5月15日在影院上映。派拉蒙影业将《爱情鸟》卖给了网飞。就连票房收入超过其他任何电影公司的迪士尼也决定跳过电影院，让《阿特米斯的奇幻历险》登陆其Disney+流媒体服务。这些决定都是由疫情导...